During its meeting on Tuesday, the South Euclid-Lyndhurst Board of Education was given an update on the progress of the district's Master Facilities Plan. The Plan was implemented after voters approved a levy increase last November, and includes physical upgrades at school buildings within the district.
LYNDHURST , Ohio -- The South Euclid- Lyndhurst Board of Education, as well as residents of the two cities, received an update Tuesday on the district’s Master Facilities Plan, which got the go-ahead last November after A portion of the levy money is earmarked for permanent improvement upgrades that include needed work at the nearly 100-year-old Brush High School building and, specifically, its Performing Arts Center , renovation of the district’s Southlyn building for eventual use as a preschool, and work at all of its other buildings.
The wide-ranging plan to improve and maintain facilities is spread out over four phases that are to be carried out over the next five to seven years. Each phase includes a Part A and Part B. During Tuesday’s meeting, SE-L Schools’ Director of Business Operations Lee Fuller informed the Board as to what is taking place pertaining to Phase 1A, which began soon after voters’ approval of the levy. Phase 1A consists of the replacement of HVAC equipment and controls at Brush’s upper-floor B-wing; addressing masonry water penetration issues at Brush’s south-facing exterior A-wing; and repairing Brush’s third-floor steam header leak, work Fuller said has recently been completed. A steam header is a manifold pipe that collects steam from one or more boilers and distributes it to various branches. All of Phase 1A’s work is scheduled to take place this spring. Some of the work, to be done outdoors, cannot begin until weather improves, while other work cannot be accomplished until boilers are offline. Scheduled for Phase 1B is work, approved by the School Board in December, that will also be done this spring. Phase 1B includes the replacement of roofs at Rowland Elementary and Memorial Junior High schools. Both Rowland and Memorial opened in 1949.“It was actively leaking,” Fuller said. “It was fully saturated. There’s a membrane on top, and below there’s insulation, and so insulation under the membrane of the roof is completely saturated all the way through.Rowland will undergo roof replacement on its second and third grade wing. Phase 1B will also include HVAC work at Brush’s lower B wing, and Brush’s third floor, both to be completed this spring. Fuller said Brush’s third floor will also see, for wrestlers, a new changing area and possiby some branding that he said would, “Bring wrestling up and give them some of the respect they deserve, because they work hard and don’t have the space some of our other athletes do.”Phase 2A is in the early stages of scoping -- which defines specific tasks, deliverables, timelines and boundaries for a project -- and does not yet have a start date. It is to include the work at the Brush PAC and renovations at the former Southlyn Eementary School building, 1340 Professor Road, which is 71 years old. More details will be known about this work once scoping is completed. It is known that work will be done on the PAC’s roof, which partially collapsed during a performance last year and has leaks. “I’m really excited about this project and where it could go,” Fuller said of the PAC improvements. Those improvements will include adding high-tech audio and lighting seen in modern venues.Fuller said that Phase 2B work will likely include more HVAC work, exterior door and window replacements, and priorty blacktop paving across the district, as well as Brush High restroom upgrades. Phase 3 planning is projected to start in 2029, while a date for Phase 4 planning has not yet been set. According to the district’s website, Phase 3 and 4 work will include district-wide tuck pointing; boiler upgrades at the Memorial, Greenview, Rowland, Brush and Sunview school buildings; more HVAC improvements at various buildings; district-wide floor, paint and ceiling improvements; and more. “This is not going to be a plan that sits on the shelf,” Superintendent Dominick Kaple told the Board. “It’s going to be a living, breathing document that is reviewed monthly by our principals and their staff. It will steer our cabinet, and it will steer our direction that not only our kids deserve, but our taxpayers appreciate and need to know about.
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